Our Shul is officially minhag ashkenaz. However, many don’t according to their own minhag, baalei teshuva who don’t have a minhag from before and anyone who has lived in EY for any significant time also do not wear tefilin. The Rov doesn’t, as that is his personal custom. So about 35% do wear. However, the baalei tefila for shacharis have to wear tefilin.
Interestingly, I don’t wear tefilin in shul, as I lived in EY for two years, keeping 1 day yom tov. I do put them on at home without a brocho, according to the psak of my Rov at that time, Rav Moshe Sternbuch. But that is only kept as a personal chumrah, meaning that my children will wear tefilin in shul with a brocho, like my original minhag.
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